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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW NATIONAL ARCHIVES RELEASE OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION FILES TELLS US NOTHING - HERE ARE THE FILES THAT REALLY NEED TO BE RELEASED BUT LIKELY NEVER WILL BE - EVIDENCE FOR THE OFFICIAL STORY IS AS WEAK AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF THE WARREN COMMISSION

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US National Archives
Reveals the Story of KGB Agent Linked to JFK Assassination

Anyone who knows some modern American history knows Soviet KGB
defector, Yuri Nosenko, was an extremely controversial figure. They know also
that claims he made about the Kennedy assassination were no more reliable than
other claims he made. Indeed, he was controversial in part because he could
not, under CIA interrogation, supply details about KGB methods and operations
which his rank of Colonel meant he should have known.

There probably never has been a defector who generated such
fights and hostilities and disagreements inside a major intelligence agency the
way Nosenko did inside the CIA, and it went on for years.

He practically tore the CIA apart internally during his
defection with one faction regarding him as a KGB plant sent to "poison
the well."

The validity of any of his claims has never been
established. And we knew the general line of his claims years and years ago.

So new stuff regarding him is not new and is of virtually no
value.

If this release of material about Nosenko represents the
quality of the newly-released Archives material as a whole, then we have made
no advance at all on the Kennedy assassination.

But I would not expect anything else. The key material, if files
ever existed and if they still exist, has never been released.

Those are the files that would tell us why the CIA has
always lied about the assassination, there being a number of instances, even
with our very limited information, where the lying is just obvious, as in the completely
wrong Cuban Embassy surveillance photo taken during Oswald’s supposed trip to Mexico
City. And as in the phony excuse about embassy telephone recordings being routinely
recycled. Also, files on people in Dallas, Russian speakers, who befriended
Oswald and are known to have had connections to the CIA, people like George de
Mohrenschildt and Ruth Paine.

We might like information on the CIA’s James Angleton and
his relationship to the program which saw Oswald and several other American servicemen
temporarily defect to Russia in the 1950s. Angleton, by the way, was chief of
one of the two warring factions in CIA over Yuri Nosenko’s credibility years
later. Angleton also had other roles to play. After the mysterious murder of
Mary Pinchot, Kennedy’s lover and closest friend, he was discovered rummaging around
in her studio for papers.

Those are also the files that would tell us why the FBI, led
from the very top, J. Edgar himself, rushed to the judgment of a man who had
absolutely no motive, and no aptitude either, and virtually instantly
identified him as the assassin. All with no evidence. And the files that would
explain the FBI’s relationship with Oswald because we know from a number of
snippets that there was indeed a relationship, at the very least as a paid
informant, which by the way is hardly what a genuine communist, as Oswald was
made out to be, of that day would do. And the files that would explain why the chief
of the local FBI office destroyed key evidence immediately after the assassination.
He burned a letter from Oswald and then lied about its contents.

That is the evidence that would explain the utterly
mysterious behavior of the Dallas police investigation in everything from
mishandling evidence to allowing Jack Ruby, a known gangster, to hang around
the headquarters frequently. It was close to total incompetence from beginning
to end, and I just cannot believe that record does not cover much darker
matters. The policeman, Tippet, said to have been killed by Oswald, a claim
contradicted by better witnesses who were ignored, we know was up to some
pretty dark activities, ultra-right wing stuff, but we have never had any
details.

But the key evidence remains that which would tell us why,
if the simple official story of Oswald’s responsibility is true, that a murder
by a quite ordinary man generated immense secrecy which endures to this day.
There simply is no national security matter involved in one misfit suddenly buying
a gun and shooting someone, even a President. No documents should ever have
been classified, and the insipid and vague nature of much that has been
de-classified in several releases only adds force to the point. Why were the
FBI and CIA ever even involved?

Also, why it is that not one piece of conclusive evidence
has ever been provided of Oswald’s guilt. All of the so-called evidence is
weak, circumstantial, and even in some cases fraudulent, starting with the true
purchase and shipping and ownership of the inadequate gun which from all
circumstances appears to have been a planted decoy for police. And even ownership
of the postal box involved is quite blurry.

While general facts of Oswald’s background were released,
they simply do not add up to what we were told they add up to. Nothing has ever
been explained about how a man, a man with a security clearance for special
radar work, learns Russian in the Marines, pulls an obviously phony defection to
Russia, stays a while and then returns to the United States (with a Russian
bride!) at the height of the Cold War, is never put on a security watch-list,
is able to readily obtain documents like a passport, and quickly comes to have
a circle of quite well-off and well-connected Russian speakers as friends in
Dallas. If you think the anti-Russian stupidity in Washington is bad today, you
should look back at what it was like in the late-1950s and early-1960s, Oswald’s
time for all of this activity. It was a howling madhouse in the United States,
but it never really affected Oswald.

No, the new Archives release will yield nothing really worth
having. That could almost have been forecast. I don’t know where the dark
agencies of government put their most damning documents or how they file them in
impenetrable filing systems or even if they indeed keep such material at all
(there being, after all, the discouraging historical precedent of the Nazis who
kept meticulous files on their crimes), but none of the documents released in
Bill Clinton’s time and others, including these, explain either the crime or
the need to have ever kept such stuff secret in the first place.